Sentences with phrase «very significant activity»

And, adds Richard Schoninger, the managing director and head of Real Estate Investment Banking for Prudential Securities in New York, «we are seeing very significant activity by the pensions and insurance companies, exchanging their assets for shares.

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The efforts of central banks to stimulate activity through monetary measures has succeeded in keeping interest rates very low, but have not resulted in any significant uptick in real economic activity.

Guidance on a global payment strategy At BillPro, we understand that accepting global payments is a significant activity for a merchant's business and can also be very complex and daunting.

«One of the most notable differentiating factors is, while septic or arthritic knees usually come with significant pain, knee effusions caused by Lyme disease are often very large, not activity - related, and mostly pain - free.»

«Even when adjusted to take into account socioeconomic factors and health behaviours (physical activity, tobacco, alcohol, nutrition) in adulthood, associations remained very significant, especially among women, who were often less susceptible to benefit from social mobility.»

West says it will mark a «very significant upgrade» in ability to track seismic activity in Alaska, especially in remote areas, like the Brooks Range mountains in the north, that did not previously have much instrumentation.

From this data the surface of Pluto's Sputnik Planum is estimated to be less than 10 million years old, which is considered very young and suggests significant activity on the surface.

After working with DeAnna and performing simple, yet brilliant activities I have begun making significant strides in areas where I used to feel very stuck.

Ironically, if you take part in online dating you will soon realize that many people do very little and a significant percentage of people's stated interests and activities are aspirational or something they did once three years ago.

I am not very athletic but would love to get out more for dates and activities with a significant other.

A study of an activity very similar to Word Ladders, conducted by Isabel Beck and colleagues, found that young struggling readers who engaged in this type of word study demonstrated significant improvements in phonemic awareness, word decoding, and comprehension over students who were in an alternative form of word study.

«Students across all grade levels made very significant literacy progress, and the high school students in particular demonstrated truly outstanding growth: four times the expected rate for students completing the recommended number of activities and nearly double the expected rate overall.

This book argues that the floods following extreme precipitation result not only from very heavy rainfall but also from the significant impact of human activities on natural water systems.

Science clears cats of blame — studies prove that cats are not a significant threat (especially when compared to the very real dangers from human activities) and that they actually play important roles in balancing the local ecosystem.

That is a significant amount of time, and a very reasonable amount of entertainment for the price, especially as building it is not the entire activity.

I personally think solar activity volcanic activity and CO2 were all clearly very significant, and about equally significant early last century.

«Not only is the data used in the report flawed and suspect, but even more egregiously, the IPCC authors — very few of whom indeed are scientists — refused to consult with scientists who are skeptical of the IPCC's defining hypothesis: that the Earth faces a crisis from rising global temperatures and that human activity played a significant role.»

Climate change is occurring, is very likely caused primarily by the emission of greenhouse gases from human activities, and poses significant risks for a range of human and natural systems.

Yes, because «human activity» includes land use changes (deforestation, irrigation, etc.), which Pielke Sr. has repeatedly argued are very significant — far more so than CO2.

By the way, Ryan, I'm not sure if you've seen this before, but there was a very interesting paper written on longer term East Pacific activity - obviously there are limitations before satellites but much like the reliability of US landfalls, those EPAC storms that hug the Mexican coast (which are a significant percentage of them) may be better counted.

This is the dire forecast of Professor Valentina Zharkova, a solar physicist at Northumbria University, who has based her prediction on sun spot activity — known to be a significant driver of global climate — which is currently very low and likely to get even lower during the next three solar cycles.

The agreement by Macquarie Capital Group Ltd. to take «responsibility for all of the ongoing development activities for the proposed wind farm» (reported in Border Watch, 2009/12/22) is very significant because it indicates that financial backing has been obtained; always a hugely important mile - stone for any wind farm development.

Nor the very significant design contributions he's made to the evolution of these human scale, natural environment - based activities.

In the likely scenario of «freezing» the currently applicable rights at a certain «specified date», the judgment might very well protect a significant number of self - employed EU citizens who have worked for more than a year at that date but have ceased their economic activity.

Legalize and Regulate Marijuana WHEREAS, despite almost a century of prohibition, millions of Canadians today regularly consume marijuana and other cannabis products; WHEREAS the failed prohibition of marijuana has exhausted countless billions of dollars spent on ineffective or incomplete enforcement and has resulted in unnecessarily dangerous and expensive congestion in our judicial system; WHEREAS various marijuana decriminalization or legalization policy prescriptions have been recommended by the 1969 - 72 Commission of Enquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs, the 2002 Canadian Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs, and the 2002 House of Commons Special Committee on the Non-Medical Use of Drugs; WHEREAS the legal status quo for the criminal regulation of marijuana continues to endanger Canadians by generating significant resources for gang - related violent criminal activity and weapons smuggling — a reality which could be very easily confronted by the regulation and legitimization of Canada's marijuana industry; BE IT RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will legalize marijuana and ensure the regulation and taxation of its production, distribution, and use, while enacting strict penalties for illegal trafficking, illegal importation and exportation, and impaired driving; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will invest significant resources in prevention and education programs designed to promote awareness of the health risks and consequences of marijuana use and dependency, especially amongst youth; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will extend amnesty to all Canadians previously convicted of simple and minimal marijuana possession, and ensure the elimination of all criminal records related thereto; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will work with the provinces and local governments of Canada on a coordinated regulatory approach to marijuana which maintains significant federal responsibility for marijuana control while respecting provincial health jurisdiction and particular regional concerns and practices.

The Mindful Schools curriculum (which is taught to educators through our Mindful Educator Essentials course) produced statistically significant improvements in paying attention and participation in class activities versus the control group with just 4 hours of mindfulness instruction for the students — a very small, low - cost dose.

Previous MCS studies have related broad composite measures of father engagement in caring activities to subsequent child behavioural outcomes using subscales of total difficulties (emotion, conduct, attention or peer problems)[38 — 40]: most effects were very small and not statistically significant, but (among the large number of analyses performed), inverse associations were reported for (a) engagement at 9 months with emotional problems at 3 years [38], (b) engagement at 3 years with attention problems at 5 years [39] and (c) engagement at 5 years with peer problems at 7 years [40].

«We continue to see very little to no secondary market activity,» he says, meaning smaller lenders that can't afford to hold jumbos in their portfolios remain financially unable to make the loans, at least in significant volume.

«A significant amount of worldwide excess production capacity will keep a lid on inflationary pressures for some time to come, allowing monetary authorities to keep short - term interest rates at historically low levels and very supportive of housing market activity.